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No. 533,408\ Patented Jan. 29, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

EDGAR K. BETTS, OF LANSINGBURG, ASSIGN OR TO HIMSELF, WILLIAM S. EARL,WASHINGTON WVILSON, AND ARTHUR R. WVILSON, OF TROY, NEW

YORK.

CUFF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 533,408, dated January29, 1895. Application filed June 27, 1894. SerialNo. 515,804. (Nospecimens.)

and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Cufis, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cuffs, and has for its object to improve theconstruction thereof,

and especially that class of cuffs which are adapted to be used inconnection with link buttons, and it consists in a cud having thefeatures of construction hereinafter set forth.

I have ascertained by experiment that the ends of the cuff (especiallywhere they are joined together by link buttons) will lose a portion ofthe support of the band, when the contact between the connecting edgesof the band and body portion of the cuff is thus broken, and to remedythis fault I overlap the band by the body portion, along its connectingedge where such contact is broken.

' In this way the overlappededges abutting against the band prevent theends from bending inward, while theband acts to stiffen that portion ofthe body portion and to hold the ends in firm, even relation to eachother. It is also evident in all cases that the width of the band willnot encroach upon the width of the body portion at its ends. Thereforewithout narrowing the body portion at its ends, a wide band may be used,which is a very desirable feature, as it aids in holding firmly the endon the wrist-band. The cufi will also present a more attractiveappearance than when there is a space between the band and the bodyportion of the cuff, as must occur where the body portion does notoverlap the band.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the culfembodying my invention; Figs. 2 and 3, side and bottom'viewsrespectively of the same, and Fig.4an inside View of the same in areversible cuff.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

A designates the bottom portion or band of the cud; B, the body portionor remaining portion of the cuff; C 0, points on the body portion of thecuff where its attachment to the band ceases; D, that portion of thebody portion of the cuff overlapping but not connected to the band.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cuff comprising a body portion and a band portion, one edge of thebody portion overlapping the band portion throughout the length of thebody portion, and the band portion projecting beyond the body portionand being secured thereto except for a short distance at each end,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' EDGAR K. BETTS.

Witnesses:

A. R. MOORE, FRANK BAYER.

